Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Texas forage producers are battling fall armyworms. Learn more, plus the latest Texas Crop & Weather Report. Specialists recommend daily scouting and replanting if young winter annuals have been eaten back to the root.

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ProAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If you grow forage for grazing or haying, youve probably wondered whether Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is worth it. Essentially, its crop insurance for hay, whether your cattle graze on the acres or you bale your crop. Read more about PRF insurance Is Pasture, Rangeland, And Forage Coverage For You?

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ProAg

MARCH 14, 2025

Compared to other federally subsidized crop insurance programs, Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is still a relatively new offering. PRF is a coverage option for pasture, rangeland and forage crops, but it certainly isnt the only coverage type available for forages. How does it work?

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

This Risk Management Agency (RMA) revised the Rainfall Index Plan Common Policy, Basic Provisions for 2025 and succeeding crop years for the August 31, 2024, contract change date and for the 2026 crop year for insurance plans with a contract change date prior to August 31, 2024.

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Pasture and forage crops have unique characteristics that can easily be used to identify them in the field. These morphological differences have a direct

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ProAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Crop insurance helps protect your farm and your future but we know theres a lot to learn about the subject. What is Multi-Peril Crop Insurance? What is Multi-Peril Crop Insurance? Is it the only type of crop insurance? In this case, coverage is determined by actual production history and a projected price for the crop.

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ATTRA

APRIL 23, 2024

The nighttime temperatures have been high enough to wake up the cool-season perennials in the pastures. You look out over the field and imagine the herd pushing into a paddock, into a knee-high sward, and they immediately lower their heads, bite, and jerk their necks, ripping mouthfuls of nutritious forage from the ground.

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West Texas Livestock

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A wheat pasture is a valuable resource for many cattle operations. This plant is a valuable source of high-quality forage when most other forages are low in quantity and quality.

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The Lunatic Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2023

I got an “Open Immediately” hand addressed letter today from American Crop Insurance asking me to join 600 other farmers who have signed up for this USDA program. This is called the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) program and has apparently been in place for 15 years at least.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. Any day you can graze is better,” says Bedka.

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UnderstandingAg

APRIL 3, 2025

Cropland to Pastureland As discussed in part 2 of this series, many conventional cropping practices acidify the soil unnaturally quickly. For them, a temporary break from cropping might be a good option. In the UK, it is common practice to introduce leys into the cropping rotation. in some spots. in some spots.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

When soil is degraded, crops become more vulnerable to pests and disease, leading to increased pesticide use and potentially harmful residues in our food. Livestock reared on pastures with a diversity of plant species produce more nutrient-dense meat and milk than those fed grain-based or sometimes genetically modified feed.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Thanks to his 24-48-hour paddock rotations, his 50-pair cow-calf herd grazes lush, diverse grasses, cover crops and innerseeded corn stubble, beginning in early May and into January. Then, after a 30-40-day rest period, he was able to graze his herd in the remaining oat/rye/radish cover crops. Farming for me has become fun again.

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ProAg

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

ProAg Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance offers protection against forage loss due to the lack of precipitation on acres grown with the intended use of grazing or haying. Forage backing when precipitation is lacking.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For example, the Census shows increasing use of key practices like conservation tillage and cover crops and durable protection of acres in conservation easements. Meanwhile, there are fewer but larger pasture and grazing operations, reflecting broader national trends. A positive finding is that there were an additional 2.6

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This process is particularly crucial in leguminous crops such as soybeans, peas, and alfalfa, which heavily rely on molybdenum for efficient nitrogen fixation. This antagonistic effect of sulfur on molybdenum uptake can result in impaired nitrogen fixation in leguminous crops and other metabolic imbalances in plants.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. A few sleek Jersey cows from the Foggy Bottoms Boys pastures. But that hasn’t been the PCC’s focus, Pheasant says.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Food grown in local fields, orchards, and pastures with healthy soil management practices simply make for healthier, more nutritious, and more flavorful meals, he says—the perfect ingredients for changing the “stigma” associated with hospital fare. Davis Med Center. Obviously, we’re not going to change patient behavior.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s all grazed pasture,” he says, spared “because the fuel load was low.” Introduced to the islands decades ago as livestock forage, invasive vegetation such as Guinea grass and buffelgrass proliferate in the islands, largely on unmanaged agricultural land. Some areas of grazed pasture on Diamond B Ranch went unburned.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri (MU) Extension and an expert on fescue. An overgrazed fescue pasture in Elk Creek, Missouri. Many ranchers would like to avoid the risk of total pasture makeovers, if they can.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As an example, Cover Crop is a basic Conservation Practice that NRCS compensates producers for in multiple conservation programs. As an example, NRCS considers the use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter an enhancement on the basic Cover Crop practice.

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Farmbrite

JULY 18, 2024

Carbohydrates and Energy, and Fiber The amount of energy contained in hay or forage is contained in carbohydrates. The amount of water needed varies by species, animal age, stage of life, available live forage, and environmental temperatures. Be sure not to over-harvest and give enough time for your crop to regrow.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Jillian Bainard, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Cost: FREE Producers rely on grazing native, tame perennial pastures or stockpiled feed to typically feed their livestock. Join Young Agrarians and Rural Routes to Climate Solutions to learn all about forage polycultures with Dr. Jillian Bainard of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 8, 2024

Other challenges to elk across various states include development and the loss of habitat, lack of or low-quality forage, drought, disease and social tolerance.” Elk are known to be destructive in their pursuit of food, toppling over containers, ruining fences and other infrastructure and eating large swaths of crops.”

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

But the crop-free plantings have had another effect, Farquhar explained. Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. For example, bats are voracious predators of insects that damage crops. Runoff from U.S. farmers $3.7

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. Drought and torrential rain will frequently reduce productivity in all regions. the Osage Nation’s community orchard.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After heavy grazing, a mixed summer forage is still building soil. They were lucky enough to have crop insurance to cover their losses, but many farmers are not so lucky. Other means of managing weather risk are, like crop insurance premiums, funded by the federal government. Joseph Fischer, of Fischer Farms in St.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Practice, CSP, FY2021 CSAF Category Practice Name Enhancement Name Code Financial Assistance Total Percentage of Total CSP Financial Assistance Nitrogen Management Nutrient Management 590 $3,369,356 $66,725,833 13.23% Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses E590A $38,293,260 Reduce (..)

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Waving fields of wheat once stippled the sunny lands of San Diego County, but higher-value crops supplanted it more than a century ago. On a sparkling spring day in March, Ellis and a crew of volunteers gathered at Rio Del Rey Farm to pull weeds from rows of experimental dry-farmed wheat crops.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) insurance is a vital tool that helps protect against weather-related forage shortages, ensuring the sustainability of your operation. PRF insurance offers financial protection when precipitation falls below historical averages, affecting forage availability. What is PRF Insurance?

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Or have they studied the nutritional profile of regeneratively produced grass fed and pasture raised meats? What are the alternative uses of land that is privately owned and marginal for crop production? The crops that are grown to produce many of these components require a lot of energy and carbon emission.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 15, 2022

However, this relatively simple feeding system begins to fall apart when you get hit by drought; forage isn’t growing in your pasture and the price of hay goes through the roof. 3:16 – What types of forage should cows eat? 3:49 – What types of forage are bad for cows?

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Farmers who have no livestock in their system have a limited number of tools…With the addition of livestock, there is the potential for perennial pastures, perennial hay, annual forages, and grazing crop residues, reducing tillage and increasing the return of carbon to the soil,” Paine tells Food Tank.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2023

A 2020 report from the Department of Agriculture showed that more farmers are selecting less labor-intensive crops, investing in labor-saving technology, and developing strategies to increase productivity. The technology also allows crops to be picked at exactly the right time, which minimizes crop loss.

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ProAg

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We are committed to expanding the reach of crop insurance, especially to producers who haven’t previously participated. Earlier this year, RMA held a roadshow highlighting insurance options for specialty crop, organic, and urban producers, drawing more than 3,000 attendees. Read the full release here.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Their meals of choice are: barley, oats, corn, soy, wheat, rye and alfalfa, the mainstay commercial crops of prairie farmers. Even if a farmer does spray, there’s often a wait time between the application of a chemical pesticide and when it’s safe to harvest a crop. Crops devoured by grasshoppers. Does it work? Moderately.”

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